Technical Lead Confluent Kafka

KSOLVES; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

KSOLVES is seeking a Technical Lead Confluent Kafka to spearhead the Kafka pod, acting as senior voice, bridging requirements and execution, guiding through complex implementations, enforcing governance, and ensuring robust streams.

You will own testing, upgrades, and documentation, drive LLD in Confluence, and mentor the team through UT, SIT, UAT, Staging, and Go-Live phases.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Kafka-based streaming projects.
• Strong familiarity with Confluent platform and Schema Registry governance.
• Ability to mentor and guide development teams through complex implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evaluation of Confluent streaming requirements for new or modified pipelines.
• Drive development and maintenance of end-to-end audit and retry mechanisms in Confluent Kafka-based apps.
• Enforce Schema Registry governance, schema evolution, and compatibility policies in codebase.
• Own the development-side documentation, especially Low-Level Design (LLD) in Confluence.
• Provide senior guidance during cluster upgrade planning, execution, and rollback testing in staging.
• Lead resolution of complex, systemic issues escalated by the core development team.
• Oversee testing phases (UT, SIT, UAT, Staging, Go-Live) and support deliverables.

Skills

Confluent Kafka

Schema Registry

Technical leadership

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Job description

The Technical Lead Confluent Kafka will spearhead the development efforts within the Kafka pod. You will act as the senior technical voice for the development team, bridging the gap between requirements and execution. You will guide the development team through complex implementations, enforce code-level governance, and ensure that stream pipelines are robust, secure, and well-documented.

Key Responsibilities

Requirement Evaluation & Collaboration: Lead the evaluation of Confluent streaming requirements for new or modified stream pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide critical developer inputs for event streaming use cases.

Advanced Development & Mechanisms: Drive the development and maintenance of complex, end- to-end audit and retry mechanisms within Confluent Kafka-based applications.

Code-Level Governance: Enforce Schema Registry governance, schema evolution, and compatibility policies directly within the codebase.

Documentation Ownership: Take ownership of the development-side documentation, specifically driving the creation and maintenance of detailed Low-Level Design (LLD) documents in Confluence.

Upgrade & Testing Oversight: Provide senior-level development guidance during minor and major Cluster Upgrade planning, execution, and rollback testing in staging environments.

Complex Troubleshooting: Lead the technical resolution and bug fixing for complex, systemic issues escalated from the core development team.

Testing Support: Oversee and support the development team& deliverables during UT, SIT, UAT, Staging, and Go-Live phases.